Hao Li

Gold prices seem to have lost their golden touch in September, falling from a high of $1,920 per ounce to $1,650, a drop of 14 percent.

In the September 2011 market turmoil, commodities prices are getting hammered. Even gold, which earlier in the year seemed to decouple from everything else and rise higher and higher, has fallen.

When legendary investor Jim Rogers was asked if a recession is coming soon, he said recessions come “because, because, because.”

Republicans in the House of Representatives regrouped Friday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but the prospect of a government shutdown loomed as Democrats said it would go nowhere in the Senate.

Gold is not a safe-haven asset, contrary to what some gold bugs believe. Perhaps the clearest recent evidence of is its huge declines since early September in response to the European debt crisis and the struggling U.S. economy.

Hedge fund industry veteran Barton Biggs warned of a global double-dip recession and a 20 percent market drop if the governments do not fix the problem.

Last week, Brazil slapped on a 30 percentage point increase in import tariffs of automobiles (the Mercosur trade bloc and Mexico are exempted). A major objective of this tariff is to slow surging imports from China.

The U.S. stock market rallied from last July until the end of April this year. It stalled from May to mid-July, after which it began to plunge.

China's manufacturing sector contracted for a third consecutive month in September while a measure of inflation picked up, suggesting the world's No.2 economy may not be able to provide much of a counterweight to flagging U.S. and European growth.

After the Federal Reserve announced its Operation Twist, bank stocks plunged.

What is Operation Twist, the Federal Reserve's latest move to boost the economy?

The U.S. dollar trumps virtually all other currencies in the current environment of fear because of its safe-haven status, Jan Loeys, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Chase, told Bloomberg TV.

Not too long ago, if you mentioned the word annuity to investors, their eyes glazed over. But now individual investors, panicked by stock market selloffs that threaten their retirement dreams, have been doing something they have never done before: asking for them.

Top Congressional Republicans on Tuesday took the unusual step of telling the Federal Reserve to refrain from further intervention in the economy on the eve of the central bank's policy decision.

The world's giant emerging economies have no magic wand to resolve the euro zone's debt problems, but a contribution to its stabilization could still prove powerful, help avert market panic and reap significant non-financial rewards.

Greece should default on its debt and leave the euro currency if it wants to have a chance at prospering in the coming decade. (This goes for other Eurozone countries in a similar situation).

The “only” option left for the euro zone is to break up the euro currency, Michael Pettis, chief strategist at Guosen Securities HK, told Bloomberg TV.

The Pacquiao-Mayweather fight.

With the U.S. stock market tanking in late 2011 due to a myriad of issues, mainly the stagnant U.S. economy and Europe's sovereign debt, many investors have sold out and ducked for cover.

China will be the dominant economic power in 2030, even if the U.S. economy stages a turnaround as it did in the 1990s, argues Arvind Subramanian, author of upcoming book Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance.

Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama should step aside in 2012 to make way for Hillary Clinton, wrote Steve Chapman, an editorial writer at the Chicago Tribune, in a column.

It's the movies, stupid, wrote a commenter on Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' blog post, referencing one of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign phrases.

The Pirate Party scored a huge victory in Germany, winning 9 percent of the votes cast in the Berlin state election.

The Emmy Awards in 2011, which aired on Sunday on Fox, was originally set to open with a video featuring actor Alec Baldwin, Deadline first reported.

President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress are digging in to fight the 2012 U.S. election campaign over the budget and taxes, leaving a congressional super committee in political no man's land.

Wall Street hopes for more Fed action and clear signs European leaders will follow through on their new urgency to tackle the euro zone debt crisis if U.S. stocks are to build on their best week since early July.

President Barack Obama is expected to make a raft of recommendations for changing tax law on Monday, in addition to his new proposed tax on the rich -- known as the Buffett tax after billionaire Warren Buffett -- which was disclosed on Saturday.

“Occupy Wall Street” is a U.S. movement to occupy Wall Street and surrounding areas in Lower Manhattan.

Remember Google+? That red-hot, exclusive, and invite-only social networking service? Now, you don't hear about it as much. And when you do, it's often someone writing about how it's in decline.